Welcome to Sydney Institute Blogs

VET E-portfolio privacy impact assessment research report

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 Posted in Article, Resources, Training | No Comments »

Education Services Australia - Sixty Seconds Newsletter 17/03/2010 E-portfolios are becoming increasingly popular in the vocational education and training (VET) sector as a tool to collate and demonstrate evidence of skills and achievements and assist in the RPL (recognition of prior ...

Retail Ready

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in Article, Resources, Training | No Comments »

Service Skills Australia is seeking retail employers/enterprises and employment service providers to participate in a pilot that will facilitate the delivery training from the retail industry training package to workers using a tool contextualised specifically to the retail industry. During ...

RPL Skills Express Toolkit for Hairdressing continues to grow

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Resources, Toolbox, Training | No Comments »

The Skills Express Toolkit for Hairdressing and the subsequent development of a tool for Commercial Cookery are important developments from the NSW COAG RPL program. The TAFE resource development team, private RTO Pivot Point and industry stakeholders celebrated these resources ...

Innovative, streamlined, group-based RPL for experienced managers in the mental health sector

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Skills, Training | No Comments »

Effective delivery of mental health services in NSW is linked closely with the quality of leadership and management applied to staff. Using a highly effective group-based RPL model, experienced mental health managers had their skills recognised at a hands-on one ...

Exploring Good Practice in RPL

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Article, Training | No Comments »

The Western Australian Department of Training and Workforce Development will host a one-day conference which will showcase good practice in recognition of prior learning. read more online

Skills First RPL Assessor Kits

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Resources, Skills, Training | No Comments »

Source: Queensland VET Professional Development The Skills First initiative concluded on 30 June 2009. As result, there is no new funding for the development of new RPL Assessor Kits or the up-dating of the existing kits. Existing funds from the initiative ...

Recognition of Prior Learning resources

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in Article, Resources, Training | No Comments »

DEEWR Recognition of Prior Learning, usually shortened to Recognition or just RPL, is the process for giving a candidate credit for skills, knowledge and experience gained through working and learning. It can be gained at any stage of their lives, through ...